{"id":2593,"date":"2016-06-10T20:10:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T19:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2016-06-10T20:10:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T19:10:44","slug":"natural-dyes-experimenting-with-black-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/10\/natural-dyes-experimenting-with-black-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural dyes, experimenting with black beans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last weekend I began experimenting with natural dyes, and had mixed success. I hoped to try onion skins next because I wanted a bright orange, but haven&#8217;t had time to gather together enough onion skins. Nevertheless I&#8217;ve got the bit between the teeth now, dying with natural dyes from plant materials is like alchemy.<\/p>\n<p>I love that lavender blue colour I call Eeyore blue. I once saw a picture of some lace which had been dyed using black beans which was just that glorious colour and decided I was going to experiment with it myself. Black beans can be found with the chick peas and kidney beans on supermarket shelves.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2595\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2595\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0704.jpg\" alt=\"natural dyes \" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0704.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0704-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0704-768x556.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0704-150x109.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0704-600x434.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">black beans soaked in cold water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The black beans were soaked in cold water for 24 hours, they produce a rather gloomy, murky mauve coloured liquid. Not very promising I admit. But then comes the alchemy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2596\" style=\"width: 534px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0705.jpg\" alt=\"natural dyes\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0705.jpg 534w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0705-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0705-150x225.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0705-300x449.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 85vw, 534px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">murky mauve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I drained off the soaking liquid from the beans, added a length of fabric which had previously soaked in Alum mordanted water and presto, the magic began&#8230; not mauve but a lovely purply blue began to develop.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2597\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2597\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0707.jpg\" alt=\"natural dyes\" width=\"544\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0707.jpg 544w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0707-204x300.jpg 204w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0707-150x221.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0707-300x441.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 85vw, 544px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">magic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just to test how strong the dye stuff was I put the beans back in another jar, topped up with more water and added more fabric. I left both jars soaking for a couple of days. The result was a lovely purply blue fabric, and a paler version with a rather more tie dye effect, caused by the lack of space in the jar for the beans, the liquid and the fabric.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2598\" style=\"width: 534px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2598\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0708.jpg\" alt=\"natural dyes\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0708.jpg 534w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0708-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0708-150x225.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0708-300x449.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 85vw, 534px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">second soaking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is such an easy process, no heat, no chemicals, and if I hadn&#8217;t reused the beans as a dye stuff, I could have cooked and eaten the beans, so no waste either, and the colour is divine. I love it, love it, love it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2604\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2604\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0861.jpg\" alt=\"natural dyes\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0861.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0861-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0861-768x580.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0861-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0861-600x453.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">lovely lavender blues<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is such an easy process, no heat, no chemicals, and if I hadn&#8217;t reused the beans as a dye stuff, I could have cooked and eaten the beans, so no waste either, and the colour is divine. I love it, love it, love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,998,323,1],"tags":[1015,1010,1007,1011,1009,1008,1012,999,1014,1013],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}